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ABOUT: Paul Fidalgo

Paul Fidalgo has been communications director of the Center for Inquiry since 2012. He holds a master’s degree in political management from George Washington University, and has worked previously for FairVote: The Center for Voting and Democracy and the Secular Coalition for America. Paul is also an actor and musician whose work includes five years performing with the American Shakespeare Center, and he currently directs productions for the University of New England Players. In 2017 he was the second Richard Kirschman Free Thought Fellow at the Mesa Refuge in Point Reyes, California. His work also appears in the 13th book of the Dark Mountain Project. He lives in Maine along with his two dangerous kids. His personal blog is Near-Earth Object, and he tweets at @paulfidalgo.

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This will have to be a quick one today folks. Yes, there’s an enormous deluge of Reason Rally coverage, but I just lost hours of work on this morning’s Heresy because, yes, I didn’t hit “save.” And I am crushed. So this was going to be longer, but I think I can still give you the important stuff.

And by the way, it was so great to meet and reunite with so many of you this weekend. I’m very proud of us.

Tuesday marked the first day of spring, but for tens of thousands of people a “Secular Spring” begins this Saturday on the National Mall in Washington, DC. The Reason Rally, a celebration of science, reason, and secular values, promises to be a tremendous success, and the Center for Inquiry, a major sponsor of the rally, will be there in full force.

USA Today has a big, mostly-positive piece on Reason Rally (by Cathy Lynn Grossman, not exactly a fan of the movement, as evidenced here, comparing American Humanist Association to Westboro Baptist Church in 2010)

Welcome to a new feature of CFI’s Free Thinking blog, “The Morning Heresy.” There’s so much going on in the news, both above and below the radar, that relates to the mission of CFI and its affiliate groups, so the management here decided it would be a good idea to get a kind of daily roundup of relevant items in order to keep everyone in the loop. Then it occurred to us, hey, this could be valuable to everyone in the secularist and skeptic movements…

I just signed on with CFI last week as their new communications guy, so I’m still settling in and getting a sense of what’s going on. So you’ll have to forgive me if some things that seem like old hat to regular readers of the CFI blogs are shiny, new revelations to me. And I’m not just talking about the fact that CFI headquarters has three little kitchens — two of which have stoves. That’s crazy! Really, what I’m flabbergasted by is the fantastic lineup of speakers at our conference in Orlando, mere days away, starting March 1st.

This past week, the Center for Inquiry (CFI) welcomed Paul Fidalgo as its new communications director. “Paul brings to CFI a sincere passion for the secular and skeptic movements, as well as an excellent grasp of both traditional and new media,” said Ronald A. Lindsay, CFI’s president and CEO. “His experience in politics, communications, and the arts will be a tremendous asset to our organization and its mission.”